Nat & Marie

Talk show hosts

Anastasia "Nat" Tubanos and Marie Nicola are the producers and hosts of weekly live-streaming talk show Nat&Marie that focuses on the best in online pop culture and social trends. They've been lovingly dubbed by fans as "The Internet Aftershow" and air LIVE every Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. ET at http://NatandMarie.com. Be sure to tune in to join the interactive convo via Twitter (@NatandMarie) and Skype (NatandMarieSHOW)!

As is customary on the web, when one thing explodes, you can expect to find a wave of websites, applications and services to offer you various ways to enrich your experience. Here are five unique ways to enjoy your Instagram gems online and offline.

The video features six provocatively dressed women who appear to be sex workers, dancing in the lit-up brothel window's of Amsterdam's Red Light District. The surprised crowd becomes entranced by the performance, while having no suspicion that the women are not attempting to entice, but to educate.

Last week, Mike Stone's story was simply about how 600 tweets would get you a porn star prom date and have it kyboshed by the principal. Now with hacktivists Anonymous stepping into the ring, the Internet has a new mission: #OpLulzProm.

Despite the strong female user backbone of this social network, men have started to jump on the bandwagon. A popular blog post by Dave Copeland titled "A Guy's Guide to Pinterest," circulating on various sites making the case for Pinterest having the capacity to be appealing to men.

The Internet is a globally accessible public forum where one wrong move may not only be scrutinized by your social network, but if you're really unlucky, it spreads like wildfire in the news and you're scrutinized by the world. And then get onto lists like this one where we share the top Internet FAILS of 2011.

The man celebrated for being the first person to reach one million followers on the uber-popular micro-blogging service may have also been the first person to simultaneously piss off his over 8.2 million followers and cause him to take a break from the service.

I think creating a body of standards will only help to evolve and legitimize the industry. But some of my peers have argued that this sort of model makes it seem too much like the traditional TV or film industry or that web video still has a long way to go to bring in the views and big bucks the way traditional media has.

Every weekend, mining YouTube and Reddit for the freshest crop of videos that may go viral is a big job. In case anyone was wondering how much time it takes, I usually dedicate most of Sunday to put t...

This past week, Beyonce released her music video for "Love on Top" and Drake took it all with his Saturday Night Live performance. I had to dig through the noise and find a few other videos that are totally worth sharing.

This week we got some solid contenders with no twist endings. Cute animals, hilarious re-animations and to start it all off, there's a video from Japan. No description is available, necessary or even possible for this clip, but, trust me, you'll love it.

While all of you are out there mainlining on overpriced bar rails on Saturday night or sleeping the damage off on Sunday, I'm mining the net looking for content for the next episode of Nat & Marie. Be...

Going global is no easy feat, even for a much-loved Canadian politician who passed away before attaining his goal of being prime minister. Yet Jack Layton became a trending topic as droves of international mourners took to social networks to tweet, blog, document and create art all in his memory.